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The Mozambican Ministry of Public Works has raised about 170 million US dollars for the rehabilitation and expansion of water supply systems in urban areas, reports Monday's issue of the daily paper "Noticias".

The Mozambican police force reiterated on Wednesday its commitment to fight against all kinds of child abuse.

The President of East Timor, Xanana Gusmao, arrived in Maputo on Thursday for a week long official visit during which he will also take part in the heads of state summit of the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) group of countries.

Tuesday's verdict in Mozambique's largest bank fraud by no means brings the matter to a close.

Senior Mozambican Foreign Ministry official Goncalves Sengo told reporters in Maputo on Wednesday that the authorities are finalising preparations for the summit of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) group, that is to take place in Maputo between 21

The UN special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, is in Lesotho to examine the impact of the disease on women and vulnerable children.

THE Lesotho Electricity Corporation has invited tenders for a three-month consulting contract that will undertake an audit of the parastatal's powersupply network.

The Maputo City Court on Tuesday sentenced seven people to prison sentences of between eight and a half and 14 years for their part in Mozambique's largest ever bank fraud.

Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano is in Libya, where he arrived on Sunday in his quality as chairman of the African Union (AU), to discuss with his Libyan counterpart, Moammar Kaddafi, the situation on the African continent.

Former workers of the Laurentina brewery in Maputo, which closed its doors two years ago, on Friday demonstrated again in front of the Labour Ministry, demanding the return of their social security contributions.

As the date scheduled for the verdict and sentence in Mozambique's largest ever fraud case, 15 June, approaches, so attempts have once again been made to divert attention away from those responsible for the fraud, and onto the allegedly corrupt behavio

Mozambique is to ban, by the end of next year, the use of leaded petrol, following a decision taken during a recent meeting of Sub-Saharan Environment and Energy Ministers in Nairobi, reports Monday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".

Mozambique's Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Castigo Langa, declared on Monday that it is imperative that the country's largest dam, at Cahora Bassa on the Zambezi, should without further delay benefit the Mozambican people.

Total grain production in Mozambique increased from 1.4 million tonnes in 2000 to 1.8 million tonnes in 2003, according to Prime Minister Luisa Diogo

Maputo City Council is spending the equivalent of hundreds of dollars a day on hiring private truck to remove rubbish - while its own rubbish trucks are stuck in Maputo port awaiting customs clearance

The stability currently being enjoyed by Angola with the end of decades of armed conflict is a guarantee for the strengthening of the relations of friendship and cooperation with Mozambique, said recently Angolan ambassador to that African country of the

Mozambique's food security prospects appear brighter, with national crop production expected to show an improvement on the previous three years, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

Residents' Commissions from Maputo condominiums have pledged to take legal action to stop the publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, from carrying out its threat to cut off power supply to those blocks of flats where the residents' commissions hav

A delegation from the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is visiting Mozambique to assess whether the country will indeed gain access to the funds available from the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA).

Gideon Ndobe has been elected the new secretary general of Mozambique's Association of Veterans of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLN) during a meeting of the organization's national committee held on Tuesday in the northern city of Nampula.